Mary Douglas Quotes
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
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The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.
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If I am confirmed by the Senate I will do everything in my power, in collaboration with by Fed colleagues to help assure the continued prosperity and stability of the American economy.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.
